Meaning

noun a person who is older than you are

noun any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit

noun any of various church officers

origin] Etymology tree Middle English eldre English elder From Middle English eldre, eller, ellern, from Old English ellærn, from Proto-Germanic *elernaz, *eldernaz (compare Low German Elhorn, Elloorn).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0